Artifacts
This "Argus" article reviews Madame Marie Duret, taking the role of Zoe Peyton for the opening night of "The Octoroon...
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"At the University of Kent, in Canterbury, England, we have explored an Octoroon promptbook belonging to Frederick Wilton, an actor...
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On July 18, 1860, the Boucicaults returned to England and on 18 November 1861, almost two years after its New...
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Almost as soon as "The Octoroon" opened in New York, both Boucicault and Robertson claimed that Robertson had received death...
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The Britannia Promptbooks mention several performances of The Octoroon (in addition to bearing the inscription from F. Wilton “hys Boke...
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The Octoroon promptbook belonging to Frederick Wilton is held at the Univeity of Kent’s Templeman library. Wilton's promptbook is playfully...
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One of the important resources for this Octoroon project is the “Scudder” part of the Octoroon promptbook at the University...
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The Octoroon was actually performed on the colonial stages of Australia a full ten months before it was staged in...
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In this interview ("A Splendid Record: Mrs Dion Boucicault," The Sketch, May 16, 1894, 146), Robertson recounted that it...
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This playbill, held at the University of Canterbury Kent’s Templeman Library, from the Theatre Royal Sheffield, advertises “positivity the last...
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American actor Joseph Jefferson III, played the character Salem Scudder in the original American production when the play opened in...
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On the evening of April 14, 1865, at a special performance of the comedy, Our American Cousin, by English playwright...
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Once Dion Boucicault had changed the ending of his famous play, The Octoroon, British satiric periodical, Punch, published a thirteen-stanza...
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The ERA 14 November 1858 reported on the opening of the Britannia Theatre, Hoxton in their edition saying: ' Whatever...
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Once had Boucicault adapted the play for London audiences that ended with the promise of George and Zoe united in...
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